Posted on 04/08/2013 2:43:32 AM PDT by markomalley
I do enjoy my TV. However, I am disconnected from Cable. Hubby hooked up an HD Antenna, and we purchased ROKU. Now I have NetFlix and The Blaze along with local stations (which we don’t watch much of)
Don’t miss anything except sports. I will figure that one out, maybe stream though computer. All toll, I have saved a bunch per month and I am not a slave to the trash on TV. Watch what I deem watchable. We also hook up computer to TV and watch Hulu too!
The greatest thing about unplugging from cable is we watch 1/4th of TV now. News we get from here and Drudge and a few others. That’s it.
I like being in control.
I have a specific criteria about what to watch, take Hawaii 50 for instance, Mcgarret will beat the crap out of a suspect and then will still shoot them, good gritty reality, no hand holding kumbaya in that show, at first I thought it was a bad series remake but it has gotten pretty good, I would say its a decent TV show.
Another criteria is a show or series of real hope, change or advancements in tech like a recent trend of full sized robot fighting. They are the genesis of “Real Steal”.
Dr. Who is pretty much still an iconic UK series that deserves its own place in history, after all its been running for 50 years.
I like Mythbusters because they have an excellant team rapport, even though they may be outrageous Obama supportive liberals they are good entertainment.
I won’t raise my blood pressure commenting about the fad Walking Dead.
If broadcasters are feeling nervous and getting wet underpants then maybe they will see the future trend of what the people will watch. Or not watch.
Besides who can really afford it anymore? Pay for lame shows or buy more ammo?
“I know a woman going on her second divorce who is an expert on relationships. From years of watching shows like Oprah and Dr. Phil I think.”
Interesting.. Off topic for this thread, but does anyone know of couples whose marriages have actually been ‘saved’ and who are better because of couples counseling? My impression is that more often than not counseling pushes the relationships over the edge. I only mention this because of the Dr. Phil thing.
we watch mostly stuff we choose off Netflicks and Amazon. The only network show I watch is Nashville, and I watch it when it’s convenient for me and on my laptop. Yesterday I did watch Serena Williams play tennis.
The other translation is that I think within five years, we may end up with multiple tiers of cable and satellite TV service.
Same here. Over 20 years clean. (Except for the garbage I bring in the house through DVD’s.)
I like TV, and because I live in a rural area with no access to broadband, watching shows online is not an option for me. I watch Survivor, The Amazing Race, The Office, Elementary, Mad Men, The Vikings, Ax Men, The Walking Dead, Veep, House of Lies, Shipping Wars, Southland, The Americans and Justified. I use my DVR and watch them at my leisure, not when they air. And because I ranch and farm for a living, I turn on the Weather Channel every morning when I’m making coffee. It’s easy to paint television programming with broad stroke, but there are programs I enjoy, and - in my opinion - don’t fall into the broad categories some other posters have described.
i advise people not to do “couples counseling” because I think they do more harm than good, they are a bunch of racketeers peddling snake oil.
I live in the countryside and NYC screwed themselves when they changed to HD and got rid of VHF/UHF; if I turn it on now, I only get fuzzy commercials and leftist garbage.
Message to Providers: Once we are off we ain’t coming back. Mine has been off since 03. I wanted peace in my home; no salesmen, no sales calls on the phone, and no garbage spewing out of a television to my kids or myself for that matter. We have had a good life since then.
The anti TV folks will have a field day with this thread.
There will be rather high minded expressions of there is nothing on worth watching. That is true if limited only to the networks and some cable.
There are new players, lots of them actually, that are broadcasting over the internet. I am testing the waters via a Roku box. The strongest source is Netflix.
Netflix has an original show that is the best currently being offered. It is called House of Cards. It is truly a great experience.
It is all about power politics, the process, not the ideology.
Internet TV is a force that will make TV broadcasters worry. It will force change.
I’m about to the place where I would drop cable if I could stream Fox News
I watch Youtube videos (Hogans Heroes, Combat!) and Amazon Prime. Besides that, I don’t watch TV.
Math education is a shambles but young people can count (barely). A 1-hour program lasts about 40 min when stripped of ads and promos. It’s interesting - but revealing - when the AP talks about technology as a means of accessing content but never gets round to talking about claiming 1/3 of one’s life back rather than sit through another ultra-loud ad for pizza or cars.
Hipsters watch ‘Mad Men’ and chuckle at all the anachronisms but what is more anachronistic - and fatalistic - than a commercial break lasting 5 full minutes? If the broadcasters expect anyone to sit through all this nonsense they are delusional, but it seems to be a concession that the audience is muting and DVR-ing away their shout-a-thons. The biggest fools are the advertisers themselves who are paying handsomely to be ignored.
All that said, relying on the AC Nielsen company to provide statistics is like asking the Pony Express to overnight a package from Miami to Seattle. Their data-gathering methods are more anachronistic than the broadcasters’ yet they have fooled the networks and the media for decades.
Have been unplugged for nearly 2 years now. Dirty little secret is that Comcast uses the same wire for cable and internet so when you stop paying for cable, they can not stop about 25 channels (including your locals) from still coming thru the wire including Fox News.
To be honest though-I still don’t watch regular TV. I spent about $400 on a cheap desktop with HDMI output with a wireless mouse and wireless keyboard and now everything I watch is internet based.
So many websites carry EVERYTHING you would want to see that even $7 a month Netflix is no longer needed.
I dumped cable TV five years ago and have been using the internet ever since. Four years ago, I bought my first Roku box. I now have a Roku on every TV set in the house. You can stream your own to a Roku box, or you can get an $8 subscription to Netflix or HuluPlus, or you can watch any of 750 available other channels currently available on the internet for free.
LOL. Good frigging luck with that.
Our home is one of these "Zero TV" homes. We have cable internet, but no channel packages. We watch Netflix, but mostly British shows with a smattering of stuff like "The X-Files" and "Psych".
American TV has made little of interest or value that isn't also supremely insulting for nearly 20 years, so we quit wasting time and money on it. I don't even turn on the TV when I'm staying overnight in a hotel.
It’s precisely because of the secular humanist worldly (Satanic) worldview that we don’t let any video information in via cable or airwaves.
And it’s precisely that worldview that causes them to want to push it into our homes.
There's a distinction between broadcasters and the big media content producers. Broadcasters get shows and sell ad time when they broadcast them. They don't really produce things (or much, anyway) and don't make an effort to control the culture. Content producers, on the other hand, package up propaganda like "The New Normal" to be shown by broadcasters. As the broadcasters fall, shows like that still get seen, just over the net. So the propaganda pipeline remains wide open.
I’m a 0.1 TV household. I have a TV but only use it to watch The Walking Dead
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